Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci's name is universally known throughout art history. He was a genius of his time but yet, not many people know much about him. Sure, Mona Lisa, right? Everyone knows that picture, but what is behind the picture? And why does she have that smirk that leaves everyone wondering, why is she smiling? What does she know that we don't know?
Leonardo was born out of wedlock on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, just outside of Florence. He was a smart kid and apprenticed for the painter Andrea del Verrocchio who was a leading Florence artist. Soon, Leonardo's talents out pasted his mentor. Verrocchio soon afterwards proclaimed he would never paint again.
He painted one of the most famous paintings ever, The Last Supper. This painting is very controversial. He dabbled into dark arts and he was known to autopsy dead bodies, trying to find out how they worked.
Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated about the world around him. He studied everything and anything that he possibly could. He studied bodies, as I mentioned before and took notes of all of his findings. It is claimed that he invented numerous items also. The cryptex is supposedly one of his invention, but the credentials are not absolute.
All the same, we have his notes and they show that he was a pioneer in all things known and unknown. It is obvious that without his talents that our world that we know it would not be the way that it is today. In a time with the Church ruled people's lives, he ventured out into the unknown and the forbidden. With prosecution always a factor, he hid his work from the world around him. This is obvious when you see that he was commissioned by the Church to paint one of their most outstanding pieces of art. But yet, Leonardo was a pagan and committed, what the Church would have considered, sins. He would have been deemed a heretic and faced like in a prison and facing numerous torture methods.
Lucky for him, he was never prosecuted or even caught. But through studying him, we have came to the conclusion that he was a master in the arts of coding. He wrote in a language that was all his own so if someone found him, they would think him a crazy old man. He made a contraption that would let him hold his works and never be found. Leonardo hid what was forbidden under the nose of the Church, through his arts.
